East Dartmoor Landscape Recovery Area Survey Volunteer (Blue Ground Beetle) (Blue Ground Beetle Survey)

DWT’s vision is for nature to be restored on a grand scale on land and at sea, and for people everywhere to have the opportunity to get close to it, enjoy it and help to protect it. We want to reassemble damaged and fragmented blocks of woodland, meadows and marshes and reconnect the living tissues – the streams, and hedges and waysides – that link them to pockets of wildness in our towns, villages and countryside. DWT nature reserves are pivotal to this.

They are havens for wildlife; protect some of our most precious habitats and rarest species. They provide a reservoir of wildlife that can move around the reconnected landscape. Landowners can learn from best practice trialled on reserves to restore other damaged habitats. And Nature Reserves are for people too – they are a place where visitors can experience nature and hopefully, as a result, support our aims.

As a volunteer on a nature reserve, you will be helping to make this happen.